Unless there’s something on the back, I’m guessing it’s a printing/layout error, and the joke has wordwrapped onto the 2nd line, meaning they’ve not printed the punchline
Santa falling off a roof. Twice.
Santa smoking two ciggies while covered in petrol
According to a quick Google search, the answer is “Santa going through a revolving door”.
All the people providing sensible answers are wrong.
The correct answer is the person responding.
They go Ho Ho Whoosh
Isn’t the answer on the back
It’s the time of year for the old favourite not-making-sense joke from crackers:
**Q: What type of medicine does Dracula take?**
**A: Con medicine!**
Here’s the explanation so you can *well akshually* at your Christmas table.
**It’s the result of typographical issues.**
It’s supposed to be ‘coffin’ medicine, but FFI in lowercase causes some issues due to the way some fonts utilise a specific **ffi** character for clarity. When switched to another typeface, this will be omitted entirely if that typeface doesn’t do that, and so we end up with **Co**~~ffi~~**n medicine**.
>*Typographic ligatures are the drawn combination of multiple letters to form a better fit and avoid awkward intersections. The ff, fi, ffi, and ffl combinations are most common, as the kern, or overhang, of the f bumps horribly in both Roman/upright and italic/oblique faces. (That kern used to literally overhang metal type, making ligatures necessary to avoid breaking type.) You probably have also seen the æ and œ ligatures, which come from Latin and are still sometimes used in lieu of ae and oe in UK English spellings of certain words, as in manœuvre or encyclopædia.*
>*A drawn version of those letter combinations that joins the letters together (in serif faces) or redraws and spaces them correctly (in some sans serif and decorative faces) solves the problem.*
> *As the No Such Thing As A Fish elves tell it, the answer to the cracker joke was supposed to be “coffin” medicine. But in the original typing of it, “coffin” has the ffi replaced with the ligature ffi (as it is in this line now twice; try to select it). That would be fine…except in the text-encoding conversion from source to joke-printing machine, the ligature doesn’t exist in the printed typeface. Often, that results in a piece of tofu, as it’s sometimes known: the rectangular upright box that substitutes for missing characters. In the joke-printing machine, it just omits a character altogether, and must not have been seen or noticed in its final form.*
There is a comma so I think they are saying Ho Ho whoosh, Ho Ho Whoosh. Is the answer on the back perhaps. I don’t think the second line is meant to be the answer, it’s just part of the first sentence.
Apparently the joke is
What goes “HO HO” whoosh, “HO HO” whoosh?
>!santa using a revolving door!<
Isn’t it the sound of a Christmas crackers joke going over your head?
Santa after too many sprouts
Santa with a rocket up his arse
Whoosh
It’s the xmas theme for r/whoosh
It’s missing the punchline.
The full joke is:
Q: What goes Ho Ho Whoosh, Ho Ho Whoosh?
A: *Santa stuck in a revolving door.*
the punchline is the friends we made along the way
A stargate wearing a santa hat?
We got this exact one at our work Christmas do on Saturday, none of us got it either
don’t know but ive just seen santa walk into job centre
Why are you opening your crackers two weeks early?!
Is the answer not on the back?
I’m not sure what the answer is but I think they prefer the term white people.
What goes “Ho ho plop”?
Santa laughing his head off!
[the audience laughing like its the funniest shit they’ve heard in their lives ….](https://youtu.be/XyiL38RlDfo?si=qDwhthOPhoRQia_u) in some 1975 game show….does anyone actually find the punchline remotely funny?
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This joke over your head.
Santa caught in a revolving door.
Unless there’s something on the back, I’m guessing it’s a printing/layout error, and the joke has wordwrapped onto the 2nd line, meaning they’ve not printed the punchline
Santa falling off a roof. Twice.
Santa smoking two ciggies while covered in petrol
According to a quick Google search, the answer is “Santa going through a revolving door”.
All the people providing sensible answers are wrong.
The correct answer is the person responding.
They go Ho Ho Whoosh
Isn’t the answer on the back
It’s the time of year for the old favourite not-making-sense joke from crackers:
**Q: What type of medicine does Dracula take?**
**A: Con medicine!**
Here’s the explanation so you can *well akshually* at your Christmas table.
**It’s the result of typographical issues.**
It’s supposed to be ‘coffin’ medicine, but FFI in lowercase causes some issues due to the way some fonts utilise a specific **ffi** character for clarity. When switched to another typeface, this will be omitted entirely if that typeface doesn’t do that, and so we end up with **Co**~~ffi~~**n medicine**.
>*Typographic ligatures are the drawn combination of multiple letters to form a better fit and avoid awkward intersections. The ff, fi, ffi, and ffl combinations are most common, as the kern, or overhang, of the f bumps horribly in both Roman/upright and italic/oblique faces. (That kern used to literally overhang metal type, making ligatures necessary to avoid breaking type.) You probably have also seen the æ and œ ligatures, which come from Latin and are still sometimes used in lieu of ae and oe in UK English spellings of certain words, as in manœuvre or encyclopædia.*
>*A drawn version of those letter combinations that joins the letters together (in serif faces) or redraws and spaces them correctly (in some sans serif and decorative faces) solves the problem.*
> *As the No Such Thing As A Fish elves tell it, the answer to the cracker joke was supposed to be “coffin” medicine. But in the original typing of it, “coffin” has the ffi replaced with the ligature ffi (as it is in this line now twice; try to select it). That would be fine…except in the text-encoding conversion from source to joke-printing machine, the ligature doesn’t exist in the printed typeface. Often, that results in a piece of tofu, as it’s sometimes known: the rectangular upright box that substitutes for missing characters. In the joke-printing machine, it just omits a character altogether, and must not have been seen or noticed in its final form.*
* [**Source**](https://glennf.medium.com/dont-coffin-me-it-s-crackers-8dd43faa42d1)
There is a comma so I think they are saying Ho Ho whoosh, Ho Ho Whoosh. Is the answer on the back perhaps. I don’t think the second line is meant to be the answer, it’s just part of the first sentence.
Apparently the joke is
What goes “HO HO” whoosh, “HO HO” whoosh?
>!santa using a revolving door!<
Isn’t it the sound of a Christmas crackers joke going over your head?
Santa after too many sprouts
Santa with a rocket up his arse
Whoosh
It’s the xmas theme for r/whoosh
It’s missing the punchline.
The full joke is:
Q: What goes Ho Ho Whoosh, Ho Ho Whoosh?
A: *Santa stuck in a revolving door.*
the punchline is the friends we made along the way
A stargate wearing a santa hat?
We got this exact one at our work Christmas do on Saturday, none of us got it either
don’t know but ive just seen santa walk into job centre
Why are you opening your crackers two weeks early?!
Is the answer not on the back?
I’m not sure what the answer is but I think they prefer the term white people.
What goes “Ho ho plop”?
Santa laughing his head off!
[the audience laughing like its the funniest shit they’ve heard in their lives ….](https://youtu.be/XyiL38RlDfo?si=qDwhthOPhoRQia_u) in some 1975 game show….does anyone actually find the punchline remotely funny?
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